<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The McStas development team is currently busy preparing McStas 2.0 for release in april this year. We would therefore warmly welcome any user contribution in terms of:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>New components</li><li>Improved components</li><li>Example instruments</li><li>Useful scripts, tools etc.</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>The only requirements for submission of a contribution are: Reasonably readable code and an good example instrument showing the use of the contribution. </div><div><br></div><div>To contribute, please contact one of the core team developers.</div><div><br></div><div>The current list of new features / improvements to McStas 2.0 includes:</div><div><br></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Components:</li><ul><li>Uniformized parameter naming across components (breaks some backward compatibility for user-instruments) - But just send problematic cases along!</li><li>Support for any shape in our sample components and some optics components, facilitated via Geomview OFF format </li><li>First use of Geomview OFF format in neutron optics components: Guide_anyshape (E. Farhi)</li><li>Updated version of the ESS_moderator_long (K. Lefmann) component including</li><ul><li>Bi-spectral mode (H. Jacobsen, E. Klinkby)</li><li>Updated geometry wrt. ESS baseline geometry (E. Klinkby)</li><li>Multi-pulse mode</li></ul><li>Bug-fixed version of SNS_source (G. Granroth), removes runtime error on Windows systems, implements MPI</li><li>Updates to various other components</li></ul><li>General:</li><ul><li>"Best practice" document for selection of right neutron source parameters (common with Vitess)</li></ul><li>Example instruments:</li><ul><li>A richer suite of example instruments with more thorough testing of components</li></ul><li>Polarization:</li><ul><li>All components support polarized neutron simulations</li><li>Possibility for nesting magnetic fields, e.g. for stray fields</li><li>Standardized method for neutron propagation in tabulated magnetic fields (e.g. from Radia or freefem)</li></ul><li>Tool layer / package infrastructure:</li><ul><li>Independent core- component- and tool packages:</li><ul><li>New Python/matplotlib based solution</li><li>Legacy Perl/PGPLOT based solution</li></ul><li>Interface-code for the iFit data analysis package <a href="http://ifit.mccode.org">http://ifit.mccode.org</a></li></ul></ul><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Peter Willendrup</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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